Disney Fans: Help, please ✨We’re taking our baby (14 months) to Disneyland and CA (Cali) next month, and I’d love to hear your tips! Savings, hacks, things you wish you knew, what to wear, and how to make it fun and smooth with a baby 📸🍽️👶🏻

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Following! We have a trip to WDW planned for this fall.

Not sure if it’s the same for Walt Disney world but we have the Disney app and it lets us know when we’re able to book food reservations. Meal reservations in the park need to be booked 2ish months in advance or you will be on a forever wait list or only eating from the food carts.

Lightening lane passes are a must with little ones. You need to reserve what rides you wanna use your lightening lane passes on 2-3 days in advance or times will be booked or you’ll be stuck with 8pm times.

We bring 2 stroller fans in case one dies. Babies love the live entertainment shows and (at WDW) most rides are toddler friendly. Try to reserve breakfast in the castle or at the park in general one day. You’ll get in before everyone else and get pics in the park with little to no one in the background.

We also prefer our own stroller. Disney strollers don’t look the most comfy and they don’t recline.

I went to DL with my baby and toddler in Sept and Feb. There are a lot of blogs on this topic. We basically stayed in fantasy land the whole time lots of low key baby friendly options - dumbo, Casey junior train, carousel, story time boats, tea cups. Outside of fantasyland we did the Winnie the Pooh ride and submarine ride. Get there as early as possible it’s less crowded. We arrived around 9 and left around 3/4. I would not try to pack too much in. They say baby stations are good for nursing and resting. I just wore my baby in a carrier and nursed him in it on line and also in the Casey junior train. If you can practice nursing while baby is in carrier it’s an awesome skill to have. Download the app and do mobile order for food. Save money by bringing your own water and snacks.

1. We've been when she was 9mths, 18mths, and 20mths.

We brought the same stuff really. I didn't bring the stroller because i didn't want to navigate it between crowds plus shes a velcro baby. So I brought i wore her in an onbuhimo carrier. My wife wore the tushbaby and a very small backpack. In the tushbaby we packed 6 rolled up diapers and a pack of wipes. Then in the front we packed her face sunscreen & a small bottle of sunscreen. In the side I had a two charging cords and my wallet/phone. I had her water cup. In my wife's bag we had a change of clothes, a light jacket for nighttime, her snack cup, and a cup of ice so that we could put it in her sippy cup. She also had the spare fan. The other fan was qrapped onto my shoulder pad of the carrier and blowing on her when we were in line.

Character dining like goofy kitchen or Minnie need to be done in advance and it's like $70. We didnt do that at 18mths because she would not have eaten much. But we are going again this yr when shes 2.5 so we'll do it.

2. But we have been able to make reservations a week before and had limited options. We found that it was easier to eat before we went to the park so that we can do rides as soon as we got there while she was awake.

On main street go to the little portrait shop. It's $10, but it's such a great souvenir. Line is short 1st thing and it takes him less than 3minutes! Head straight to fantasy land if little one is gonna be awake for a while (Dumbo was a fav along with tea cups, & small world- lines get long later in the day. There's storybook, carousel, peterpan, Pinocchio & snow white- my little one was not scared of these last two). Then edelweiss snack cart has delicious bratwurst and they're big but roses tavern has good food too which we never had to wait for. Ordering online is faster and we did that when we were next in line for a ride! So that when we got out and headed there it was usually ready). They can't ride much before 40inches at Tomorrowland but we did do buzz (she loves buzz

3. But the darkness of the ride did have her a little scared.) She loves astro orbit ride similar to Dumbo just a little faster. It's too small for 3 ppl so one of you can ride with her and the other can grab one rocket in the front so you can record or take photos, or not. Whatever is your thing 🤷🏾‍♀️. We grabbed creamed cheese stuffed pretzels at the spirit across from toy story store and some drinks. We skipped the Nemo sub. We then crossed over towards new Orleans Square to do pirates and haunted. Our little one loved these rides everytime. Between those rides i placed an online order at mint Julip for the mint tea lemonade and beignets and we got in line for haunted and while I was in line my wife grabbed the online order for a sandwich & fruit cup at verandas. We ate in line. After we finished haunted we headed to star wars. She loved meeting the characters and running around. We grabbed a ronto wrap and saved it for her for a little bit later. Then we went to to ogas cantina (reserved 3wks before)

4. We got the fuzzy cocktail for my wife and I got a jabba juice that tasted like a pineapple and it had popping boba and we got the batu dip which had different bite size snacks and a warm dip. The cantina doesnt have food good and our little one was hungry so we pulled out the roto wrap 🤣👌🏾. Then we headed to Mickeys toontown! Went to mickeys house and we did get in line to meet him. It went pretty fast actually and they have little movies playing in the room! We rode the mickeys railroad. She loved it at 9mths and hated it at 18mths and was unsure at 20mths. It was loud and Jerky but we brought her ear covers at 20mths and that helped. We were hungry for a snack so we went to Daisy's and split a pepperoni flatbread pizza thing. Then went to minnies house. There's also a little water playbarea BUT the floor is Hella slippery so maybe just have your little one in comfy water shoes for the day? We then headed back into fantasyland and did a repeat of rides she loves and had many breaks there during that

5. round where she ran and played. At 18mths we skipped the parade and the lines were basically no wait because everyone was at the parade. But by 20mths we did the parade and she had the time of her fricken life. If you want the parade you gotta get a spot an hour before!! So the snack cups and cold beverages were great then.

We left the park by 7p. We've had a great time all 3 visits. During line waits we let little one run around us so my wife and I created apace in line between us so she had a small space she could run back and forth in. We played i spy, sang songs, talked about her favorite characters...the breastfeeding center was nice and we checked it at at our 1st visit but I found that changing her diaper in regular bathrooms was fine and breastfeeding her in my carrier was also fine. I wore a tank top stretch bodysuit so I could put my boob out discreetly. I didnt use the center any visit. We also breastfed every visit and doing it in the carrier has been great. We didnt do a photopass. Have fun!

Wow! I love all of the recommendations you all have shared! I really appreciate it and feel more prepared for our upcoming family visit! Thanks, everyone! 😁